The Yiddish Book Center's
Wexler Oral History Project
A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.
"If They're Reading Letste Nayes, They're Really Uneducated People": Attitudes Toward Yiddish in Israel
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Rachel Rojanski, Professor of Judaic Studies at Brown University, remembers the contempt her parents displayed for their Yiddish-newspaper-reading downstairs neighbors.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rachel Rojanski.
This excerpt is in English.
Rachel Rojanski was born in Israel.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.